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OHN VAN DEVELDE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PAPER BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,517, dated J' une 12, 1900. `Application led March l5, 1900. Serial No. 8,742, (No model.)

To CLZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN VANk DEVELDE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to paper barrels; and it consists in the new construction and adaptation of the hoops to the barrel, whereby greater strength and stiness is obtained, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

The nature and objects of the invention will fully appear when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a vertical section of a portion of a barrel having my improvements, showing the peculiar construction of the barrel and application of the hoops for the purpose above stated. Fig. 2 is a transverse or horizontal section on line 2 2 on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents one of the hoops.

A represents the body of the barrel, Which is made of sheet-paper by rolling the paper on rollers or mandrels designed for the purpose. As the paper is rolled on the mandrels glue or any suitable adhesive material is applied for sticking the layers of paper together. The mandrel on which the paper is rolled has tapering grooves, as a a, formed in its surface from the ends toward the middle, and the impression-roller, which works in conjunction with the mandrel, has corresponding ribs which act to impress the paper into the said grooves for the purpose of making tapering erimps in the cylindrical body for reducing the diameter of the body from the middle to the ends for producing the bilge. On the mandrel,at the middle or bilge portion, is also made an annular groove E and on the impression-roller is made a corresponding annular bead, which serveto produce an annular groove in the body of the barrel. On

one end of the mandrel is also made an an-y nular groove C and on the impression-roller is also made an annular rib-bead, which serve to produce an annular groove in the body of the barrel near the end. These grooves are for receiving the hoops.

D are the hoops, consisting of metal bars having a concave-convex (in cross-section) rib d, designed to occupy the annular grooves in the body of the barrel. These hoops have barbs e e, one on each end, and in one end a slot f. These hoops are applied and secured to the paper bodies by placing' the ends havL ing the slots f in the grooves B and C with the barbs inward, and as the body is rotated the barbs are forced into the paper and the hoops rolled into the grooves, and at the com pletion of the revolution the end barb is inserted into the slot f and forced into the paper and clenched on the inside, as seen in Fig. 2'.

The fasteners for the head of the barrel consist of wires or hat strips of metal Gr and are held under the end hoops, being put in place as the hoop is being rolled on. The heads II, which are also made of paper or may be of other suitable material, are inserted to place and rest on the shoulder formed by the annular groove C. Now the ends of the fasteners are bent over the chime of the barrel and down onto the edge of the head, and thus fasten ythe heads in place, as shown in Fig. l.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a barrel formed of sheet-paper, an annular groove near one end, a corrugated hoop contained and secured in said groove, fasteners in said groove held by the hoop, and en-` gaging the head, for fastening the same in the barrel, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Cleveland, Ohio, this 13th day of March, 1900.

JoHNvAN DEVELDE.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. TrBBrr'rs, HERBERT H. HYMAN. 

